Those old-time rebbes, they knew how to master such trifles as time and space. The future is past, the past is future, and the exterior becomes the interior without the necessity of physical intervention, Now if only they could have left us the recipe for a real geshmak shabbat chont (AKA cholent) that can be baked in less than 15 hours.

]]>By: Shaynahttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-730068
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:37:36 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-730068Ah, those old-time rebbes
]]>By: jwbiiihttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-730034
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:38:41 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-730034Beckett is taking 22.5 seconds per pitch, 70th out of 94 qualified. The slowest are David Price (26.2) and Chris Archer (26.1). The fastest are Mark Buehrle (16.9) and R.A. Dickey (18.4).
]]>By: cur68http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-730033
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:36:10 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-730033You, me, most of the commentariat…we all could take our hacks and put up better numbers than JP. Thing is, Dinner also calls a good game, is more than a touch better defensively, and his bat is not just a little better than JPs; its miles better. What’s more he can laugh at himself. He had the hugest smile/laugh when he was tagged out. The look on his face said it all: “my 3B coach is either an optimist or had no idea who was running the basepaths…” then he had to sit down for a bit…still laughing.

Yep, Dinner’s all right.

]]>By: kevinbnychttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-730012
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:52:33 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-730012Don’t you worry, I meant “tub” in the most complimentary of ways. But don’t act like out hitting J.P. is much of an accomplishment. I haven’t played baseball since 8th grade, and I like my chances.
]]>By: Professor Fatehttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729983
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:04:32 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729983I’m enjoying not seeing any Giants fans’ crowing about their big lead over the Dodgers (down to two) as well as not seeing any Bosox fans’ crowing about how stupid the Dodgers were for taking Beckett.
]]>By: historiophiliachttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729943
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:11:38 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729943It means you’re #1!
]]>By: Old Gatorhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729930
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:40:50 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729930Heh – when you accidentally contaminate a milchig dish with fleisch or vice-versa, you have to bury the offended plate for a period of time – I heard six weeks but others have told me it’s only six days; whatever. So, in a place like Macondo where the topsoil is so thin, it’s just better not to make any mistakes.

Now for that story from the old country my grandmother once told me: it concerned a rebbe so perfected in devekuth that at breakfast he could dunk a bialy the size of a cartwheel in a demi-tasse without scraping any cream cheese off on the lip of the cup.

I don’t know if I believed her. I may have just nodded out of respect. This was at least 50 years ago.

]]>By: Old Gatorhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729928
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:35:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729928Then you must try the burgers at Ben and Izzy’s. They’re boosted with short rib and 25% smoked meat. You don’t even have to take six years orf before trying one. But you do have to buck the ridiculous traffic on Bathurst if you plan to have dinner there. It’s saner for lunch, but remember that they’re closed on Shabbos.
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Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:09:19 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729910I took six years off of eating red meat. That first hamburger was really fuc..ng good.
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Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:34:49 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729876As a born again meat eater, I look forward to eating a huge sandwich at Ben and Izzy’s. Baseball talk and restaurant recommendations at the same time: thanks, folks.
]]>By: cur68http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729848
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:58:30 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729848Hey! He’s not a tub! He’s husky. Big boned. Well set up. Ready for a long season. But who cares what he looks like? He can out-hit JP Arencebia any day of the week and he’s fast becoming one of my favourite Beaver Warriors: I have him as my everyday FL catcher (because I’m a total unapologetic homer: a state which is paying off HUGE this season).

One of my Fantasy League competition, who is a native Spanish speaker, has assured me that “Dionner Navarro” means “Never Missed Dinner” hence its not a nickname just the anglicized version of his actual name. FC wouldn’t lie to me, either. I mean, he admits to having a Chihuahua as a pet. Who’d admit to that? Only an honest person. The rest of us would lie like bastards (“Chico’s my Doberman. Really!”); so “Dinner” is how he’s known around the League. I’m hoping to hear Buck Martinez call him that on air, too. I swear Buck reads HBT. More than once he’s slipped in references to stuff we’ve said here. Still hasn’t called them “The Beaver Wrestlers” though. But there’s lots of season left…

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Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:46:37 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729838I can’t tell if “Dinner” is a hilarious typo or intentional. Either way, great nickname for that tub of a man.
]]>By: indaburghttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729827
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:32:16 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729827When my patient has an oxygen saturation of 88%, oxygen supplementation is awesome and what the doctor ordered. For healthy people with normal oxygen sats, oxygen supplementation is a waste and even potentially dangerous, specifically the “flavored” or scented type. I’m guessing after Navarro’s sprint, he was probably close to 88%.
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Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:18:33 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729816Aresachaela, where I’m originally from and coincidentally the place your favorite team calls home, NYC, a middle finger is a way of showing affection. :-)

All is good from the bottom of the standings, FC. No game yesterday, so at least we didn’t lose. We’re on Price Watch. Trade conditions imminent.

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Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:09:25 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729811Gator mine, you know I wouldn’t miss a post of yours! I even go back and read old ATH and STS columns in the hope of finding Gator nuggets.

Glad to hear that Ben and Izzy lived up to my encomium. Yes, the faux sour cream is amazing and, for a kosher girl like me, disorienting. (I still am put off by seeing someone eating a kosher “ham” and cheese sandwich.)

Crab, lobster, etc. holds no temptation for me. I can’t understand how people can eat something that is all antennae and claws. It’s like eating an escapee from a Japanese monster movie. I don’t care how good it tastes. As for shabbat use of the computer: I thank God that I am prohibited from using things with screens for 25 hours every week. Otherwise my carpal tunnel syndrome would never have any recuperation time and my eyes would glaze over and cross. Not a pretty picture.

Why are you burying dishes? What have you been doing with them?!

PS By way of including some baseball content, I will cherish forever the sight of Dinosaur Navarro chugging from 3rd to home on Luis Rivera’s ill-advised wave home. Dino looks like a cherub with his podgy body and his pursed lips and curly dark hair; such beings need wings for speed, feet won’t do it.

]]>By: Old Gatorhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729807
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:00:29 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729807PS – I’ve been reading about supplements. They’re usually not all they’re quacked up to be. Navarro prolly shoulda availed himself of the ambient nitrogen instead.
]]>By: Old Gatorhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729806
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:58:48 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729806Yeah, he reminded me of a slightly younger Prince Fielder. When I first saw him come out of the dugout the other night, I realized how orbicular he ackcherley was. He always looked a little slimmer on camera, you know, like a TV weather girl standing in front of the animated meteorological map. Just not with great legs. In any case, I always wondered why these teams don’t crack down on their overweight players – I mean, it’s their investment and the DL always looms so menacingly over everyone that it makes no sense to let the players you have to depend on embark on such protracted courtships of it.
]]>By: Old Gatorhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729803
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:53:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729803Leave Lewis Carroll alone!
]]>By: Old Gatorhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729801
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:52:27 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729801The simple answer to that is to open up a pit lined with dung-tipped sharpened bamboo stakes just behind the batter, with a sliding lid controlled by the official scorer.

Lacking dung, they could always rub the points with a ballpark hot dog. I’m sure that would be just as toxic.

]]>By: Old Gatorhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729797
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:45:18 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729797Oh yes, and Shayna – before the shroud of Shabbos descends and you have to abandon your keypad (is there a computer dispensation in the shulcan arouch if you leave it running, you know, like a digital shabbos stove?), I want to make sure you saw my expression of contented gratitude yesterday on the prior ATH for the recommendation of Ben and Izzy’s. Excellent place. I went back again for breakfast and had their smoked meat and egg pancake and sampled their perogies. And that faux sour cream – I have to check around for it here. It’s not that I keep kosher or anything – if gehinnom is the price I have to pay for eating stone crab, so be it – but “lite” dairy sour cream goes bad so quickly in this climate after exposure to air that if that stuff, dairy free, is available, it’d be more cost effective anyway, and doubtless higher in protein and lower on carbs. Also, the oolite bedrock here on the Cutler Ridge (six feet above sea level, which is a Matterhorn by Macondo standards) is barely two inches below the topsoil, which makes burying the dishes an all-day job requiring an air hammer.
]]>By: cur68http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729793
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:42:59 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729793Agree with all, especially watching Dinner run the bases. He gave it all he had but Dinner is not fleet. But 7-0. Damn. That was nice. I needed a lift yesterday, too.
]]>By: moogrohttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729789
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:40:10 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729789Shmalk off.
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Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:38:50 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729786He’s different now.
]]>By: Old Gatorhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729784
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:36:45 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729784Well now, I am back in Macondo where I belong, and just in time to demur about last night’s loss to the Feelies, which dropped the Feesh through the membrane of gossamer reality waves holding them, in a sort of metaphysical surphase tension, to the surface of the strange attractor. True, the Rainbow Warriors remain a mere 2.5 games out of first but their allergy to scoring runs persists – all three of their runs came on solo homers by the Iron Giant, Marcell Ozuna and the recuperating Salty. Do they count? Sure. What doesn’t count, though, is a phantom baserunner – someone who got on by other means, any means. It’s another way of saying that when nobody’s on base, an opposing peetcher will be take chances with the Feesh that they don’t generally take when there’s a warm body out there at one of the stations of the diamond. Domini three! Pfffttt!

It was ackcherley Jeff Baker’s boot at third in the seventh inning that allowed the Feelies to tie the game and forced the Feesh to settle for a split – which, of course, is the first thing you do to your catch before you fillet it. Now, time to check the Feesh homepage for any little odds and ends or the usual run of redundant or lateral roster moves I might have missed while sojourning briefly in the boreal latitudes.

Also, that poutine is making me lethargic and filled my dream with fantasies about driving a flatbed semi loaded with snowmobiles to some Inuit outpost via the ice roads.

Last year towards the end you allowed me to become a temporary honorary Tigers fan, for which at the time I was eternally grateful and am now predictably forgetful. We may wind up back there again, but for now be warned, the glasses are off.

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Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:05:13 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729761Thanks for the explanation Sally, hope all is well in your part of the baseball spectrum.
]]>By: binarymathhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729758
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:00:00 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729758“That should tell you something about the significance of the walk off hit stat regarding player quality.”

Exactly. A completely useless trivia note. Calling it a statistic is an insult to the science of statistics and probability. A “walk-off” ANYTHING is just noise.

And don’t even get me started on the “most yada-yada-yada in post-season history” pseudo-stats. The fact that more players compile more things when MLB playoffs have more games and more rounds is not stat-worthy. It is simply obvious and inevitable.

These made-for-TV stat-oids are just something for TBS and Fox to flash on the screen while yet another batter steps out of the box for 30 or 40 seconds after taking a pitch that was 2 feet outside.

]]>By: hcf95688http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-121/comment-page-1/#comment-729752
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:53:24 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=527087#comment-729752I watched a lot of the giants game last night, flipping back and forth between that and the Dodgers/Cardinals game. A couple observations: 1. The giants have some rummy named Joe Panik playing 2B. Panik! Hahaha! Pretty close to perfect name from what I can tell – he “Paniked” on one play where Sandoval threw the ball to him, although “Joe Suck: might be better, especially offensively. 2. I LOVED seeing two different giants batters hit balls 400+ feet and neither of them scoring. It occurs to me that batters must hate The Most Beautiful Park in Baseball, center field vegetable garden notwithstanding. No wonder top tier free agents wont sign with Frisco. 3. Bottom of the ninth rolls around, heart of the order due up in a two run game and the stands were 3/4 empty. Maybe they ran out of garlic fries?
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